I will have to investigate about possible English services, I'd be curious to see their service either way. I think there are some practices which I'd be unfamiliar with, and I suspect going to a greek community -dominant church could feel a bit intimidating alone, not being a meme er of that community or having any ties with it, unlike in your case. Not a major problem really. Annoyingly work patterns mean I can rarely attend services anyway.
I never really think about the pope, and never experienced any talk of the pope from my time in catholic churches (I could just not remember, it was a long time ago). I wonder how much investment Catholics have in the pope, what the pope says anyway. A bit like a changing CEO at your workplace who you never meet.